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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Greek poetry"”.
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Totalising Rhetoric in Late Antique Greek Poetry
… defined by classical scholars as ‘Late Antique Greek poetry’. The phrase refers to the work of (primarily Christian) poets from the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire roughly between 4th-7th c. AD, at the critical juncture between the Classical Era and the Middle Ages. This poetic …
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Modern mimesis: encounters between British and Greek poetry, 1922-1952
… Louis MacNeice’s observations of Greece in his poetry collection Ten Burnt Offerings. The boundaries of cultures, states, religious beliefs and genders are considered in the figures of T.S. Eliot’s Mr. Eugenides, C.P. Cavafy’s Myris, Kostes Palamas’s Phemius, W. B. Yeats’s Crazy Jane and …
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Early Greek Indexicality: Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
This thesis is concerned with early Greek literary history and the nature of archaic Greek allusion. It examines how our earliest Greek poets self-consciously marked and signalled their interactions with other texts and traditions, often in a deeply antagonistic fashion. In recent years, scholars …
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Embracing Evil: The Threat and Allure of the Female in Greek Poetry
… often noted the harsh depictions of women in Greek literature and account for them as simply part of the tradition of Greek misogyny' that exists throughout ancient Greek texts from the archaic period to classical times. This project argues that these sentiments, which have so often been …
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‘Αθήνα – η πιο ξένη πρωτεύουσα’: urban estrangement in Greek poetry, 1912-2012
… examines the use of language by major Greek poets of the twentieth century as a means to express their feelings of estrangement towards the Athenian urban environment. In doing so it takes into consideration the history of how the rapid creation of the modern Athens has been reflected …
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The Motif of Lovesickness in the Acts of Paul and Thecla and the Acts of Andrew
… literature including medical texts, Greek poetry and literature, and ancient Greek novels. After showing that lovesickness was a concern in this literature, I engage in an exegetical reading of the Acts of Paul and Thecla and the Acts of Andrew. I suggest that the astute reader might …
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Homer in the Perfect Tense: The Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus and the Poetics of Impersonation
… part of the AHRC collaborative research project Greek Epic of the Roman Empire: A Cultural History. This project seeks to give the first cultural-historical analysis of the large, underexploited corpus of Greek epic poetry composed in the transformative period between the 1st and the 6th …
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Angelo Poliziano and the Renaissance invention of Greek-to-Latin verse translation, 1430-1589.
Greek-to-Latin verse translation is a phenomenon entirely absent from the Middle Ages, and which appears only fitfully and tardily in the 15th century, some decades after prose translation becomes a staple of humanist practice. By the end of the 16th century, however, almost the entire corpus of …
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Greek Meter : An Approach Using Metrical Grids and Maxent
Standard presentations of ancient Greek poetic meter typically focus on identifying and classifying the repeatable syllable-weight-based patterns found in Greek poetry. This dissertation, by contrast, seeks to understand why selected Greek poets arranged their words in just those patterns instead …
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Pindar's Isthmians 3 And 4: Essays And Commentary
… to geographic and architectural landmarks in Greek poetry, I suggest that the nature of such descriptions is uninformative about the performance-setting and is often mimetic, i.e. aiming to evoke places in the mind of the audience rather than drawing attention to what they can see for …
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Sanctifying Boldness: New Testament Women in Narsai, Jacob of Serugh, and Romanos Melodos
… These male poets, writing in Syriac and Greek, explored the hermeneutical possibilities of female voices and perspectives. While previous scholars have shown that early Christian authors portrayed female martyrs and ascetics subverting normative behavioral expectations, I argue that …
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Spectres of Metre: English Poetry in Classical Measures, 1860-1930
… so many poets attempt English verse in Ancient Greek and Latin metres during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? And what was at stake in these attempts? The most immediate importance of these questions to literary criticism is the fact that they mark one of the most striking and …
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Poetry in public: reperformance and publication of archaic Greek epigram
This dissertation examines Archaic Greek epigram in its context (cultural, historical, physical, etc.), with particular focus on its ancient reading and reception. My study contributes to our understanding of the performance culture of Archaic Greece, whereby, scholars have argued, poems and their …
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Women Without Faces: Exemplary Control in Ovid's Amores 2
A critical analysis of the second book of Roman poet Ovid’s work of erotic elegies, Amores. Through a close reading of several crucial poems in book 2 of this work (2.17, 2.4-5, 2.2-3, and 2.7-8) and the application of modern literary and gender theories, such as the idea of gender performativity …
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Ο ΑΡΧΑΙΟΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΣ ΜΥΘΟΣ ΣΤΟ ΛΥΡΙΚΟ ΒΙΟ: ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΗΓΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΓΕΛΟΥ ΣΙΚΕΛΙΑΝΟΥ
THE STUDY FOCUSES IN THE ANCIENT GREEK MYTHOLOGICAL THEMES AND ELEMENTS OF THE LYRICAL WORK OF SIKELIANOS AND DEALS WITH THE ORIGIN OR THEIR SOURCES, DESCRIBES THE CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR POETIC FUNCTION AND COMMENTS ON THE PROCESS OF THEIR APPEARANCE, FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE WORK OF …